Buzzfeed: 'Facebook is To Blame For French Riots' - Not Macron's Tax Hikes

The site points towards the tech giants algorithm that help start the riots

The site points towards the tech giants algorithm that help start the riots

Left-leaning social sharing site Buzzfeed believes Facebook’s new algorithm is responsible for encouraging anti-Macron protests across France.

The site published an article that points towards the tech giant's News Feed, which Buzzfeed says provoked France’s working class into rioting, and not the crippling fuel tax hikes by President Emmanuel Macron’s climate agenda.

Buzzfeed writer Ryan Broderick claimed the French "Yellow Vest" movement “is a beast born almost entirely from Facebook.”

The article seems to place Macron’s massive carbon taxes as 'secondary' in the blame game.

Broderick then claims that development enabled so-called “Anger Groups” to increase viral messages on the social media platform, creating a climate of fear.

He then claimed the groups grew more substantial due to a recent Facebook algorithm change that gave preference local news over published pages

“Due to the way algorithm changes made earlier this year interacted with the fierce devotion in France to local and regional identity, the country is now facing some of the worst riots in many years — and in Paris, the worst in half a century,” he argued.

Broderick then cites a petition launched in May by French citizen Priscilla Ludosky which helped it gain traction.

Ludosky petition most likely stems from the anger of having to pay $170 per month on fuel to travel into Paris for business.